Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
葛优和咏梅哎！！！
拍得乱七八糟、莫名其妙，硬生生弄成一个解密闯关速通视频，就连台词设计、耍宝环节和镜头语言都有一股网剧味。我想看的正儿八经的商业电影，而不是这种劣质产物。
从火车站那场戏开始崩坏。然后所有情节都太无聊了。并且几乎没有任何奇观，挺失败的。光致敬活着没有用啊。不管是砖头还是佛头，都毫无重量感，演员表演的时候也不掂量掂量。。
唐突的剧情，莫名其妙的对白外加迷之演技，本来都是减分项但凑到一起就还挺有趣的。雷佳音在韩国颓废大叔这条路上真的是一去不复返，只是他除了脸大，四肢都细，穿着臃肿的毛衣就稍稍有些露怯。李现的“花瓶”演技竟然正向增加了娱乐性。希望第二部出来之前他不要塌房吧。。。
意外的还行，就是设的局逻辑上有大bug，佛头能顺利收回来就是奇迹（划掉）
锤子砸手的暴力桥段完全没必要，本来想给孩子看这下不合适了。葛优枪战一开始我就想完了，这种剧情一般葛优都得死，结果看了一会，果然死了，和我想象的完全一样，情节设计太土了。特效和分镜头总体还是挺爽的。
李现帅的，电影改编的情节更简单，小说更好看，期待系列化。
影片是标准的商业化拍法，不断的解谜反转，还附赠了小幽默，具体可以参照《国家宝藏》的叙事结构。
挺有意思的，好像学了一些古董知识，其实并没有，危险，为葛优而看~
雷佳音的本事没老爸教难道还是胎里带来的？最后砸佛头的手法也太糙了点吧！| 根据马伯庸同名小说改编
整体看下来会有点乱
没啥能动脑的地方 答案都由角色解了 对错真相只能被动接受
周末被妈妈拖去看的！当时手边的一部电影刚要看完，所以上半段没怎么进入状态......我开始期待是猜中了佛像肯定是假的哈哈哈！（然而是又不是w）线索推进挺快的，这点很好，要吐槽的是那个啥特效叽里咕噜的一点都不炫酷好么(￣∇￣)就一股无聊的大人画风（不过年代和服装也的确是）哦对！！我印象比较深的地方是辛芷蕾真的好适合这种花绿绿的胖棉袄，她一脸飒气又妩媚拿着那串钥匙，真的会让人感觉是坐拥好几套宅子和一大堆金元宝把老公踩在脚底下玩弄的女人23333！！特别戳我泪点的反而是回忆，许和平一个人在街上买包子，周遭热热闹闹的，只有他坚守着他的孤独、想念和秘密，就好心酸。这条主线背后的故事我会记很久。
要是能打七分比较合适，李现的演技真是个弟弟，雷大头合适，葛大爷神了，主要是剧情大家都太熟悉了，基本上靠演员撑场面，
7.0/10
可能灰头土脸的镜头多，许愿就总让人想到《刺杀小说家》的关宁，再加上解析古董时瓷器上的炫酷特效，虚虚实实，味就凑一起了。更喜欢原著里药不然和许愿那种亦敌亦友、猫抓老鼠的双雄关系，就很无间道。这个改编把老朝奉变成了药来，药不然被放低了一等，就没那么好玩了。
原著四部本应拥有着高度适应电影改编的节奏，非要浓缩成一部电影毫无疑问会破坏故事的完整性，整部电影像是在以正常速度播放着二倍速前进的剧情。
演员很努力，但是剧本漏洞比较多，难以自圆其说
感觉更适合夏天上，爆米花咔咔一吃就不用去想片子里各种逻辑漏洞了。中间的推理过程节奏做得很好，很容易就被带着走，看得挺酣畅淋漓。但是不能细想，一细想就是各种bug，最让我没想通的就是真的外面包层浆也还是真的啊，怎么给爷爷洗白？感觉费了一大通事造了一个大局却没有兜住底，头重脚轻的感觉。
昨天开始上映，虽然有喜欢的雷佳音，李现，但是这电影不值得去电影看，家里看看就好
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